what they said

"We wanted to make a very personal album... Let's try to figure out why we wanted to be in a band, the relationships around the band, our friendships, our lovers, our family. The whole album is first journeys—first journeys geographically, spiritually, sexually. And that's hard. But we went there."
- Bono on Songs Of Innocence

did you know

U2 has the world record of the most albums on the US top 200 at the same time, U2 has to share this record with Pearl Jam, the Monkees and the Beatles. The number of albums was 8.